go A Holiday in Iceland. was heard, in the midst of which our tall friend disappeared backwards, his weight having upset the slender partition. His ill luck provoked the first hearty laugh we had had that day, and the curious spectacle he presented trying vainly to recover his beef, which had slipped down into the mud, proved sufficient to restore good humour and merriment all round. After a short rest we resumed our journey, floundering and rolling through the boggy country as before, in a style neither pretty to look at nor pleasant to experience. But everything has an end, and at last this seemingly interminable morass ended too. Though the character of the soil changed, it seemed doubtful whether much improvement had been gained, for we now crossed land as rough and stony, as the former had been soft and treacherous. We seemed, in fact, to enter just such another wilderness of lava as that which exists around Hecla, only, in this case, we missed the carpeting of fine dry dust, and had instead a rough uneven ground, which made riding a matter of considerable difficulty. The journey was getting more and more weari- some, when at last we sighted the Hvita, and knew that our troubles were nearly over. Zoega after- wards informed us that only twice previously had he crossed that great swamp, travellers usually prefering to take a more circuitous but safer route. Had I but been aware of the character of the country he should never have had the pleasure of bringing me

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